Quotes About Mythology

You dare to threaten me?" These gods, I thought. They always say the same thing.

That word, nymph, paced out the length and breadth of our futures. In our language, it means not just goddess, but bride.

But Athena had no babe, and she never would. Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips.

I am made of memories. The memories come, and come. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

You see?" I said, when I was finished with the tale. "Gods are ugly things." "We are not our blood," he answered. "A witch once told me that.

He did not thank Medea for her aid; he scarcely looked at her. As if a demigoddess saving him at every turn was only his due.

An oath by the River Styx would hold even Zeus himself.

Least of the lesser goddesses, our powers were so modest they could scarcely ensure our eternities

I remembered how in all the stories of my childhood the women were always hanging themselves.

She fell in love with him, and to save his life smuggled him a sword and taught him the way through the Labyrinth, which she had learned from Daedalus himself.

On her chest shone her famous aigis, leather armor fringed with golden threads. It was said to be made from the skin of a Titan that she had flayed and tanned herself.

The horse's muscular legs ended in flesh, the equally muscular torso of a man. I stared—at that impossible suture of horse and human, where smooth skin became a gleaming brown coat.

not when I stood in his blood.

Island of Lesbos

saffron. Not only Titans would attend. Minos was

I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now that they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.

He rolled onto his side to face me. A stray lock of gold fell half into his eyes; he blew it away. "My name is Achilles.

Madeline Miller

All those years of pain and wandering. Why? For a moment's pride. He would rather be cursed by the gods than be No one.

You are braver than most gods then. I once saw Aphrodite leave her son to die on the field over a scratch.

This is Lord Diomedes, King of Argos," Lycomedes said. "A comrade of Odysseus." And another suitor of Helen's, though I remembered no more than his name.

Our goddess of the moon is gifted with magic, with power over the dead. She could banish the dreams, if she wished.

Minos, king of Crete, son of Zeus and a mortal woman.